Mackay, Australia Travel Blogs

Paul's Birthday
Jul 10, 2006

We arrived in Mackay the day before my birthday and stayed in a free campsite just 30 minutes from Mackay. We stayed beside the Pony club stands and generally just ate and got drunk to celebrate the 8th anniversary of my 21st Birthday. The next morning ...

Family Connections
Nov 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... coming from Scotland. Returning with Nigel and Angus they gave me a quick tour of the area and the beaches around Mackay driving past fields and fields of sugarcane and a few pineapple patches before arriving home. With them offering to put me up ...

Dangerous Waters
Nov 11, 2006 (3 photos)

Up early in this morning as the family got ready to go to work and school as I felt a little guilty at being the only one not rushing about in the morning. But only a little. Went for a walk along a few of the many beaches in the area with lovely ...

Rocket Man
Nov 12, 2006

I've always dreamed of traveling into space and today I would be one step closer with the construction of Mackay's very own space program with the help of some elastic bands, selloptape, an empty bottle and some spare plastic piping. Alice had a school ...

Road to Mackay
Nov 10, 2006

Mackay

Monsoon in Mackay
Feb 15, 2008

... very costly.   We had to cancel our upcoming accommodation on Magnetic Island (just off Townsville, about 385km's north from Mackay) and seems as though we'll also have to cancel our sailing and diving trip in Cairns (another 400km's north from ...

The one where the car breaks down....
Dec 13, 2003 (2 photos)

... start charging. But it so could have easily been 50! Anyhow we ended up in (probably) the smallest town in Australia Carmila. Imagine.... a pub, a 24hr service station (I don't think I would have survived without the pies bought when hungry!) a ...

Mr Mackay - mmmkaaay!
Dec 1, 2008 (30 photos)

... to Sydney for the 23rd. We set off a bit later this morning to make sure all alcohol was out the system and headed off for Mackay. We found a van park near town called Central Tourist Park. It looks like it's run by drug addicts and drunks, but it was ...

Platypus spotting in Mackay
Apr 29, 2005 (11 photos)

Mackay is a very small and quiet town, with a botanic garden, art gallery, orchid house and river boardwalk. Its main attraction though is the Eungella National Park. This is one of the best places to view a platypus in the wild. We stayed at the YHA which ...

Gympie to Mackay - Day 221
Sep 30, 2008

An epic 14 hour, 900km drive to Mackay today. Did have a couple of short breaks but I was totality exhausted when I settled down for a sleep this evening. The drive was really monotonous, not a lot to see along the way, that's why I just kept on driving. ...

Whit or Whit out you
Feb 18, 2004 (9 photos)

Friday February 13th Bugger. My bus south to Townsville was cancelled as the Tully River had burst its banks and had made the road impassable. Back it was to the hostel and the room I shared with three crazy Kiwi chicks, so it wasn't all bad. I spent ...

Mackay
Jul 2, 2004

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Mackay in our entry from Melbourne, Australia entitled 'Found Nemo, Lost Sydney.....and much more.....'. Cheers, K & S

Richtung Norden / Moving on up
May 18, 2006

... . Before the journey there we opted for a nice weekend at Cape Hilsborough National Park, a lovely area and coastal hideaway near Mackay. We were camped right by the beach there and we had a lovely couple of days walking on the beach, exploring the ...

Mackay
Mar 14, 2006 (2 photos)

Crikey, We're Dumb!!
Mar 13, 2009 (18 photos)

... day fun"...did I just get propositioned?!? Eventually we clued in that Cyclone Hamish was bearing down on north-eastern Australia.  Confirming that a cyclone is the same thing as a hurricane helped explain the "expected to strengthen to a category ...

Mackay
Aug 2, 2007

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Australia 0 Brazil 2!!!
Jun 18, 2006

We only really stopped here to break up the journey on the way to Airlie Beach. We did get to watch the Aussie 'World Cup Footy Show' in a pub, notable only because it contained no real information about Football! They really don't know what to say about ...

Cania Gorge and Cape Hillsborough
Jun 21, 2009 (10 photos)

...  One even had a 5th wheel much like ours!!  We all sat by the fire and talked about life in the  US and Australia  and had quite a wonderful time.  Of course we are now invited to stay with all of them on our next trip!!  The ...

THE JOURNEY BEGINS FOR US ......FINALLY!!!!!!!!!
May 25, 2009 (2 photos)

... sad and will miss her family. The other daughter just thinks we are on a camping trip and is a bit oblivious to the road ahead of us. We are hoping to get to our next destination before dark and will reveal that another day..it is 260klms from Mackay

Mackay
Aug 3, 2009 (2 photos)

Hi everyone, (hope you're still with us), we have spent the past 2 nights in Mackay, a very busy town, with over 160,000 people in and around town. Although sugar is still a very major product for the area, mining is also very big here too.  We arrived on ...

Mysterious Monotreme
May 10, 2008 (9 photos)

... or 9 inches. We hoped for a fuzzy glimpse of this oh-so-difficult to spot natural wonder and were rewarded with fabulous sightings beyond our wildest dreams. Broken River should be (but thankfully isn`t) on every travellers `must do in Australia` list.

Aehm...do you speak english?
Sep 11, 2009 (5 photos)

Ich hab von Mackay aus einen Tagesausflug zum Eungella Nationalpark gemacht, der bekannt ist für das Schnabeltier. Und wir hatten das Glück auch wirklich eins zu sehen! Hab mir dieses Tierchen ganz anders vorgestellt, so ungefähr in der Groeße eines Bibers, ...

Mackay
May 3, 2007 (2 photos)

Thursday 3rd May. Early again! Got the ferry from Nelly Bay to Townsville and then boarded another GreyHound bus, this time to Mackoy. It was about 5hours on the bus again but sleeping is a good way to pass the time. When we got to Mackoy we got picked ...

My time in Mackay
Jul 3, 2005 (15 photos)

... actually checked that first, but oh well. Sorry it's been a while since my last post. Internet was really expensive in Mackay. Right now I'm actually back in Cairns, but I marked this Mackay because that's what it's about. >>>Our first day of work ...

Mackay - Australia's sugar cane capital
Aug 26, 2008

... , we had been promised a lift to the airport, 3 hours before our flight was due to leave but we took it. When we arrived at Mackay's airport, we saw that our flight was leaving 1 and a half hours early than we though. So we made it with time to spare but ...

MacKay
Apr 16, 2007

Mackay

Moving on up the coast...
Jul 10, 2006 (16 photos)

... was the Whitsunday Islands, however, it's a long drive from Buderim to Airlie Beach where the boats for the islands are based. Mackay was therefore another stop off as we headed North. We'd booked into a little beach resort next to the ocean but with ...

water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
May 19, 2007 (2 photos)

... more.  Onto Mackay `your gateway to the Whitsundays`. Hmm well forgive us if we sound sceptical about another of Australia`s gateway cities. Gladstone was gateway to somewhere (possibly the chance to spawn mutant children due to its abundance of high ...

Flew from home town to state capital Brisbane
May 25, 2008

Finishing touches to luggage, went thru checklist for 100th time, met touring party at local airport. Everyone in cricket team travelling garb, including sponsored jackets which may well come in handy during UK "summer". Farewelled our two grown-up boys ...

Sugar Mill Tour
Oct 20, 2006

First of all, Mackay is pronounced 'Mack - eye'........... We went to the Farleigh Sugar Mill tour which was really interesting.... Stu and I had to wear protective gear (ear plugs, hardhat and goggles) as the mill is a fully functional work site. ...